Navigating Disruption: Building Resilient Supply Chains for Startups and Scaleups
Join us in Berlin for a half-day, in-person workshop designed for startups and scaleups whose business models hinge on complex supply chains. In today’s “no-rules” operating environment shaped by tariff shifts, geopolitical tensions, climate shocks, and security threats - a single disruption can derail product launches, burn cash, and undermine customer trust.
This session goes beyond high-level trends. We’ll unpack the real operational decisions startups face:
How a missed shipment of critical components can break your unit economics
How climate-driven downtime or sanctions buried three tiers down can stall your growth
What practical steps you can take now to increase visibility, reduce concentration risk, and strengthen resilience
The content is directly relevant for founders, COOs, CFOs, sustainability leads, and procurement/operations teams in consumer, deeptech, defencetech, energy, and marketplace businesses.
🎤 Why attend
You’ll hear from an unusually diverse and high-calibre group of operators including Aaron Haid (Enpal), Enrique Thayer (Hello Fresh), and from Malte Liewerscheidt (Control Risks), offering both strategic context and concrete, hard-won lessons:
Control Risks: global experts in geopolitics, security, and operational risk
Enpal: a fast-growing climate-tech scaleup building supply chains for hyper-growth
HelloFresh: operating one of the world’s most complex consumer supply chains
This mix of specialists and scaleups provides a rare, off-the-record look into what has actually broken in real supply chains — and how teams fixed it.
🗓 Agenda:
8:30 - 9:00: Coffee
9:00 - 9:15: Welcome remarks
9:15 - 10:15 am: Supply chain vulnerabilities: Geopolitics, high-risk regions, critical dependencies, and infrastructure risk; Malte Liewerscheidt, Director Global Risk Analysis at Control Risks
10:15 - 11:00 am: Building a procurement function in a hyper-growth scale-up: bringing efficiency with a lean team and the right tools; Aaron Haid, VP Procurement EU at Enpal
11:00 - 11:15 am: Coffee break
11:15 - 12:00 pm: Scaling your supply chain: evolving pricing strategies, handling shortages & disruptions, future-proofing with AI; Enrique Thayer, VP Strategic Procurement at Hello Fresh
12:00 - 12:15 pm: Wrap up
12:15 – 13:30 pm: Lunch
Register now to secure a seat; the group will be capped to ensure genuine exchange.
If supply chain disruption, input cost volatility, or regulatory uncertainty could realistically affect your next milestone, this will be time extremely well spent.